In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: > > But I meant that even if you use utf8string in many places as soon as > > you stuff it in a container like tstringlist, that is gone. (forced > > ansi conversion, since tstringlist's interface is defined using plain > > string(0)) > > AFAI Understand (having done some decent research on this) the > "STringList forcing time consuming conversions) with Codepage aware > Strings is only solvable by inventing an additional fully-code-dynamic > String type usable as the basic interface for TStrings. IMHO, this is > rather easily doable, but not Delphi compatible (See some former > discussions.)
Not old Delphi compatible. One can go new delphi compatible, and make everything 2-byte as much as possible. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel